The UN Decides a Universal Ban on
Revisionism

17 November 2005

On
November 1st, unanimously and without a vote, the
representatives of the 191 nations making up the UN adopted — or let be
adopted — an Israeli-drafted resolution proclaiming January 27th
“International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the
Holocaust”.

Moreover, the resolution “Rejectsany denial of the Holocaust
as an historical event, either in full or part”.

Historical
revisionism thus sees its existence acknowledged by the whole world, a
fact proving that it has some life in it, but, at the same time, this
decision means that the revisionists find themselves struck with the
reprobation of all the countries of the world.

As
for the “State” of the Vatican, which has no seat at the UN, it had, as
early as in 1992, declared: “There is no historical revisionism that
can call into question the inhuman abyss of the Holocaust” (« Non
c’è revisionismo storico che possa rimettere in discussione l’abisso
disumano dell’Olocausto ») ( L’Osservatore Romano, 7
November1992).

The history of human societies and religions is rich in
prohibitions, bannings, excommunications but, whereas, up to a recent
past, the victims could, at least in principle, hope to find a refuge
outside of their land or group of origin, here the condemnation is, for
the first time ever, of universal character. It is thus confirmed that
historical revisionism is a phenomenon of exceptional nature and also
that the Jews, yet once more, have been able to obtain exorbitant
privileges.

A sleight of hand by the Jews

It was through a sleight of hand that the Israeli
delegation succeeded in getting this resolution passed. It proceeded in
a manner like that of certain associations which, in France, under
cover of a campaign against paedophilia, have obtained a law
prohibiting, on the Internet, communication relating to paedophilia and
… to revisionism! To begin, they asked: “Is paedophilia not a horror in
itself?” The response was “yes”. Their second step was to add: “Is
paedophilia on the Internet not to be banned by a specific law?” The
response, there again, was “yes”. As a third step the associations
concluded: “Let’s fight, accordingly, to obtain a law against
paedophilia and … revisionism [which they called ‘negationism’]”. For
his part, the President of the General Assembly, the Swede Jan Ellasion,
had the deftness on November 1st to ask orally whether
anyone was opposed to the resolution aimed at commemorating the
“Holocaust”. No hands being raised, he declared, without prior recourse
to a vote of any kind, that the resolution was thereby adopted, the
text of which contained in one of its provisions the condemnation of
any form of “Holocaust” revisionism. The draft was approved by the
United States
in utter disregard of the guarantees of freedom of opinion provided by
the first amendment to its constitution. And, most remarkably, this
Israeli text was accepted by the Arabo-Moslem countries, including
Iran. All those present approved, or let pass with soft verbal
restrictions, a resolution originating from the Jews that goes so far
as to condemn the right of free research on a historical subject.

The
UN act assumes only a political and not a juridical character. Still,
since it provides that the Secretary General will have to report on the
measures subsequently taken within the framework of the resolution, the
revisionists will have reason to fear consequences for themselves of a
judicial or administrative nature, for instance, as regards border and
airport police, authorisation to enter and stay in certain countries or
the issuing of visas. The resolution will serve morally to justify and
facilitate extradition measures taken against revisionists.

3)
the handing over of revisionist Ernst Zündel by the United States to
Canada, then by Canada to Germany;

4)
the handing over of Belgian revisionist Siegfried Verbeke by the
Netherlands to Germany;

5)
the handing over of revisionist Germar Rudolf
to Germany by the United
States.

6) In
Austria, on November 11, the semi-revisionist David Irving, a British
citizen, was arrested by traffic police on a motorway and is now in
detention in Vienna.

For
any noted revisionist it is already risky to leave the confines of his
home country. In doing so, he exposes himself to a request for
extradition made to the country of transit by either Israel
or Germany. There is at present a bill in committee at the Knesset that
will authorise Israel to demand the handing over of any revisionist in
order to bring him before a court, sitting in Jerusalem, that will
apply the 1986 Jewish antirevisionist law against him.

The Jewish State’s Offensive

A
fortnight ago, Philippe Bolopion, United Nations correspondent for
Le Monde, wrote a particularly informative article on the successes
achieved at the UN by the Jewish State since June 2004 (“L’offensive de
charme d’Israël à l’ONU rencontre un certain succès”, Le Monde,
4 November 2005, p. 3).

He
listed six recent accomplishments of that State:

1)
in June 2004, Kofi Annancalled for an acknowledgement “that the
United Nations’ record on anti-Semitism has at times fallen short of
our ideals”;

2) in October of the same year, a
resolution including a condemnation of antisemitism was adopted;

3) in January 2005, a special session
of the General Assembly marked the 60th anniversary of “the
liberation of the death camps”;

4) in June, an Israeli ambassador was
elected vice-president of the General Assembly — the first Israeli in
fifty-three years;

5) in September, on a visit to the UN
for a gathering of heads of state and government,
Ariel Sharon shook hands with Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf,
while the Israeli delegation made
numerous new contacts;

6) in October, the Security Council was quick to condemn the Iranian
calls, which were nothing new, for the Jewish State to be erased from
the map.

The Jewish State’s incomparable gall

These successes are all the more striking as no nation in the world has
made fun of the UN like “Israel”,
a state that, however, owes its creation to … the UN. The
Jewish State, with an incomparable gall (in Jewish parlance:
chutzpah), has thrown a record number of United Nations
“resolutions” straight into the bin.

In violation of international law,
thisState, founded on the colossal
lie of the “Holocaust”, practises colonialism, racism, apartheid,
military occupation and torture. We may add that it possesses an
arsenal of atomic weapons and on this score has, for example, in the
last few years been supplied by Germany, free of charge, in the name of
the said “Holocaust”, with three ultra-modern submarines fitted out for
nuclear armament.

The
collusion between, on the one hand, the Jewish State and armed forces
and, on the other hand, the German State and armed forces has become
such that the German mail service has just released a stamp, for the
most regular rate of postage, depicting, on the left, the Israeli flag,
then, on the right, the German flag and, finally, linking the two, a
strand of barbed wire, symbol of the perpetual “Holocaust”. Germany is
becoming the Jewish State’s “Guantanamo”.

On October 5, 2003,
Israeli ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman
had warned the Security Council members that the God of the Jews was
“watching” them and, on July 16 2004, annoyed at the behaviour
of some Arab states, flung the remark at his
colleagues in the General Assembly that things had “reached a point
where the inmates are running the asylum”. On the other hand, on
October 31 of this year, he said that he was “moved” when presenting
the “Holocaust Day” text, his country’s first successful
draft resolution ever. He declared: “I feel moved and privileged to
present this historic resolution today, as an Israeli, a Jew, a human
being and a child of a family of Holocaust victims”. That is
understandable. The next day, the “adoption” of his resolution marked
the triumph of the “Holocaust” sham. For the occasion, one may say that
as far as gall, dishonest procedure, spirit of domination and
intolerance are concerned, the Jewish State has outdone itself.

This extraordinary UN resolution also constitutes proof that
historical revisionism is a reality that can no longer be bypassed,
denied or played down. Its notoriety has become global. Still, let us
take care to recognise that the revisionist researchers who remain
active are now but a handful and, with each passing year, their future
grows darker.

• As the only United Nations member state whose leader has called
for Israel’s destruction, Iran marked the world body’s first
commemoration of the Holocaust yesterday by accusing the Israeli
government of exploiting the Jewish people’s suffering for political
gain.

The Islamic republic made the charge in an “explanation of
position” as speakers in the UN General Assembly remembered the six
million people — most of them Jews — killed in Nazi death camps during
the Second World War.

“Iran condemns genocide against any race,” says the statement.

“Regrettably, the Zionist regime has routinely attempted to exploit
the sufferings of the Jewish people in the past as a cover for its
crimes being perpetrated today against Palestinians in the occupied
territories, including massacre, demolition of houses, properties and
farmlands, as well as acts of state terrorism.”

The statement stops short of repeating the call of Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” but
contains an additional warning reflecting his plans to hold a
conference examining the scale of the Holocaust.

“Addressing historical events of horrific enormity, with a view to
avoiding their recurrence, requires a commensurate degree of scientific
scrutiny and rigour,” the Iranian statement says.

Mr. Ahmadinejad sparked outrage when he followed up his call for
the destruction of Israel with a declaration the Holocaust was a
“myth.”

“With dismay, we have had to note that today, even presidents
insist on describing the Holocaust as a fairy tale and go so far as to
make anti-Semitic remarks,” said Norbert Lammert, Germany’s
parliamentary president.

For its part, Israel has for decades been heavily criticized and
often condemned at the UN, but the General Assembly’s 191 member states
agreed Nov. 1 to dedicate Jan. 27 to the memory of Holocaust victims.

Delegates burst into applause yesterday during an address by
Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman, whose grandparents were killed in the
Holocaust and whose parents fled the Nazis.

“I vow to you there will forever be an Israel,” he said, “so these
horrors will never be witnessed again.”

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called those who deny the Holocaust
“bigots” as he met with survivors of the Auschwitz death camp and young
people in Zurich, Switzerland.

He also questioned why “there were so few” people like Raoul
Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat and businessman who helped save
thousands of Hungarian Jews during the war.

The UN, however, has come under fire in recent years for failing to
prevent genocides in Rwanda in 1994 and one still unfolding in the
Darfur region of Sudan.

The date of the commemoration marks the anniversary of the
liberation of the Auschwitz camp.

While Iran was part of the international agreement to recognize the
day, the resolution passed by “consensus,” meaning no country objected
or called for an open vote.